Waste receptacle



April 7,-, 1925.

R. T. SUDDENDORF WASTE RECEPTACLE Filed Feb. 8. 1924 @Rennais PatentedApr. 7, 1925.

- UNITED STATES 1,532,844 PATENT FFICE.

ROBERT T. sUnnENDonr, or CINCINNATI, CHIC, assICNoa To WITT CORNICE CoM-TANY, or CINCINNATI, oI-IIC.

WASTE vRIEJCEIPT ACIJE.

' Application filed February 8, 1,924. Serial No. 691,409.

To all who/ml t 711.663/ Concern.'

Be it known that'I, RonnnT T. SUDDEN- Donn, a Citizen of the'UnitedStates, anda resident oit Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton andState of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful In'iprovements inlVaste Receptacles; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to improvements in waste receptacles and moreparticularly to the closure structure the1efor,-one object of theinvention being to provide a duplex closure structure embodying swingingdoors which shall be independently supported and in which each doormember shall be operable to retain the other door member in normallyclosed position and permit either door member to be opened inwardly andautomatically Cause both door members to afterwards assume normal closedpositions without the employment of weights.

With this and other objects in view, the invention consists in. certainnovel 'features of construction and combination and arrangement of partsas hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the Claims.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a view of a waste receptacle showing an embodiment of myinvention.

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view of the hood portion of thereceptacle, and l Figure 3 is a bottom plan view of said hood portion. Y

The body portion l of the receptacle may be made angular in crosssection and the hoodportion 2 has a general conical shape with -Hattapering sides 3-3 and 4.-4f connected at the top or apex ot the hood bya cross u'ielnber 5 having depending flanges 6-6 suitably secured toportions of the sides H of the hood. The several side-members or' thehood are provided near vthe larger lower end of the latter with inwardlyprojecting flanges 7 by means of which the hood may be supported uponthe upper edges of the body portion of the receptacle.

The side members 4--4 of the hood' are made with tapering openings 8which are normally closed by swinging doors 9 9. These doors are hingedat their upper smaller ends to the flanges 6-6 of the cross member y5 ofthe hood and are provided with re-inforcing tlanges l0 at their ltheapex of the hood so that it will retain its form notwithstanding therough usage tov whichy waste receptacles in public places faresubjected. The doors are independently hinged immediately adjacentthemember 5 so that large doors may be used and the strain upon theirhinges will be minimized so that the doors will operate easily andsmoothly at all times.

To the inner faces of the respective doors, brackets 12 are secured andlocated comparatively short distances from the free lower edges of saiddoors. Each bracket 12 is provided at its respective ends with inswardly projecting lugs or earsl?) and the lugs or ears of one bracketare connected with the lugs or ears of the other bracket by means ofcurved bars 11h-the ends of which bars have pivotal connection with thelugs or ears of the brackets.

With the construction and arrangement of parts abovedescribed, the twoindependently hinged doors will so cooperate with eachk other that eachwill be retained in normal closed position by the'other; that when onedoor is opened inwardly the other door will be caused to swingoutwardly, and that when released both doors will swing to closedposition, one door moving in an outward 'direction andthe other in aninward direction.

It will be readily noted, upon reference to Figs. l and 2, that thedoors may swing through the respective door openings and that theconnecting bars are rigid although they are pivoted to the doors inorder to .ace commodate the relative eccentric swinging of the doors.lVhen an article is to. be deposited in the receptacle, either door ispressed inwardly and the door opening is thereby cleared for the passageof the article which is dropped through the opening. Then either door isopened, the force applied thereto is transmitted to the other doorthrough the connecting bars so that said other door is swung upwardlyand outwardly as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2. The outwardly andupwardly swung door then acts as a weight to aty once return theinwardly swung door to the closed. position when the opening force iswithdrawn therefrom, and each door acts as a counterweight to the otherdoor whereby both doors are normally held in closed position and neitherwairlly,` doors hinged 'on pivots out of aline nient with each other atthe opposite sides respectively oi? said hood'and swingable thro-ughsaid openings, andl a rigid; bai' e ten-ding from one door to the otherand hinged to both.

V2. A hood *for a waste receptacle having upwardly converging sides,two. opposite sides being provided-with door openings, a bridge memberat the apex ofthe hood having downwardly extending flanges at its edgessecured to the upper ends otA the sides of the hood7V doors'independently hinged at their upper ends to the hood and movable throughSaid door openings, each door being hinged immediately adjacent a sideflange of the bridge meinberand the hinges ot' tl e respective doorsbeing out of alinement with each other, brackets secured to the innersides. of the doors near the lower ends thereof, and a rigid barextending between the doors and having its end-s pivoted tothe brackets.i

In' testimony whereof, I have signed this SpeciieationY in the presenceof Y two subscribing witnesses. Y Y ROBERT T.- SUDDENDORF.

Vllitnesses: e l

JAMES Gr.` EnoMMnrnn, CHAs. B. FLAGGE..

